Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 944
Seeing a large number of national cavalry retreating like an avalanche, Qin Yiming had a million grass-mud horses roaring past in his heart.This is not a joke, there are thousands of cavalry, spread out all over the world, they retreat like this, the Sichuan army will inevitably be thrown into disorder, and the Qing army cavalry will take advantage of the momentum to cover up and kill them, this battle will not be able to be fought up!The titan yelled: "Crossbow soldiers line up, stop them!"

Thousands of crossbowmen immediately stepped forward, lined up in three rows, holding their crossbows flat, pointing their extremely sharp arrows coldly at the cavalry of the subordinate country, shouting loudly: "Whoever disturbs our army will die!" Said, the first row of crossbows The soldiers pulled the trigger without hesitation, and a row of crossbow arrows roared away. Immediately, dozens of the fastest-running cavalry screamed and rolled into a ball, as if they were being shot by heavy machine guns.Facing the dense array of crossbows, the tributary cavalry trembled for no reason, and consciously retreated around the Sichuan Army formation.Although they have poor discipline, they also know that the army formation must not be chaotic. Once the army formation is disrupted, what awaits the Ming army will be a massacre!In order to maintain the integrity of the front line, the Ming army will kill them without hesitation. After all, in the eyes of the Ming army, they are just cannon fodder, and no matter how many people die, they will not feel bad!
The cavalry of the subordinate countries cleverly bypassed the formation of the Sichuan Army, and the formation of the Sichuan Army was not disrupted.But the situation of the Sichuan army did not get better. The Qing army crossed the Xiaohe River like a gust of wind, and swept towards their left flank. The Qing army, which had just let them retreat steadily, fought back screaming like chicken blood. , and launched an unprecedented bloody battle with them.The most deadly thing was the Qing army's heavy artillery on the hills, which fired fiercely at the Sichuan army's phalanx. Many shells hit the intersection of the two armies, and the solid shells rolled over. The soldiers on both sides were bloody.Dorgon was really in a hurry. He would never be willing to do this in normal times, but now he completely disregarded the casualties of his own soldiers and risked his life, desperate to tear apart the Sichuan Army's formation and defeat the Ming Army!

The situation suddenly became serious.

Yan Yingyuan's face sank like water, and he yelled: "The artillerymen made blocking shots to prevent the enemy cavalry from charging! Zu Dabi, come on!"

Zu Dabi galloped back to the phalanx of the Lancers, and roared: "Follow me!" Hundreds of chasseurs roared out on a horse, waving their loaded lances and charging towards the phalanx that was continuously flowing. The cavalry of the Qing army crossed the Xiaohe River, and a thousand cavalrymen immediately mobilized, raised their horses and mobilized their horses, rolled forward in three rows, and the terrifying meat grinder of the Heluo New Army began to rumble again.

But it was the rows of artillery shells that first hit the death on the heads of the Qing cavalry. More than 30 howitzers and thunderbolt guns fired at the same time, and the shells fell into the Xiaohe River like a hailstorm, making the Xiaohe River foam and rolling. A large area of ​​the Qing cavalry on the river surface would be swept away, and the losses of the Qing cavalry skyrocketed!But the cavalry of the Qing army was also red-eyed, completely ignoring the heavy casualties, destroying the horses, passing through the gaps in the water columns, leaping onto the river bank, and rushing towards the Ming army camp!They know that the biggest weakness of artillery is slow reloading. Although the artillery of the Heluo New Army does not know what new technology has been adopted, the rate of fire is several times faster than that of ordinary artillery, but they can only fire about three shells per minute, as long as they are willing to bear it. With a certain number of casualties, you can break through the interception of artillery fire, kill the artillery positions, and kill these hateful artillery!
Rolling cavalry overflowed the river bank and charged straight over.The chasseur roared to meet him, controlling the horse with his legs, aiming his flat-end rifle, and shooting!Tongues of flames shot out from the horse's back, gunshots rang out like beans bursting, staring at a pair of bloodshot eyes and howling, the charging Qing cavalry spurted blood in twos and threes, and fell down from the horse's back screaming.The Qing army let out a terrible growl from their throats. They didn't even open their bows to fight. Instead, they held four-meter-long spears in one hand, or brandished sabers. cavalry!
Cavalry Wall Tactics!
The new tactics of the Heluo New Army and Tianxiong Army cavalry pumping the Qing Army cavalry all over the ground time and time again, let the Qing Army learn it!Although they are still in a hurry, they can only organize a team of 50 people to charge over the wall, instead of a complete formation of thousands of people like the new army, but for the chasseurs, this is enough to kill!Light cavalry can't beat heavy cavalry, and light cavalry can only cause limited casualties to heavy cavalry if they shoot back and forth. There are none left. The Mongolian army swept across the Eurasian continent, not by cavalry and archery, but by heavy cavalry, which accounted for [-]% of the entire cavalry force!This is an astonishing proportion. The proportion of heavy cavalry reaching [-]% ​​is enough to rule the world, and they have reached [-]%!No one knows better than the descendants of Genghis Khan how terrifying the impact of heavy cavalry is, so when they saw the fifty cavalry of the Qing army rushing towards them, the chasseurs whistled, turned their horses and ran away, they would not touch this bad luck !
Many of the chasseurs who charged too hard and failed to rein in their horses in time were bumped into by the high-speed charging Qing cavalry. Spears were stabbed at them, their chests going in and out, and they were even knocked over, both men and horses. Hundreds of people were gone in the blink of an eye.The heavy cavalry of the Qing army ran over their corpses and moved forward without mercy!

Then, they collided with the Lancers who were rushing towards them like an iron wall, and the two cavalrymen collided head-on like two waves, splashing blood all over the sky.

This is the bloodiest battle that Zu Dabi has experienced since he created the Lancers.There are no tricks, no space to display personal martial arts, both sides are holding horses or spears, staring at the enemy in front and rushing forward, and the long soldiers in their hands spin out with the impact of the horse's high-speed charge, Those who flash fast can still live, and those who flash a little slower will immediately be stabbed to death!He could only smile wryly at this, the Qing army was not an idiot either, they had been repaired a lot, and they had also learned the tactics of the new army!

Fortunately, there are not many Qing cavalry who can charge like a wall with spears, only about [-], and their level is still far behind that of the new cavalry. On the contrary, he rolled back and swallowed up the momentum of this heavy cavalry in one fell swoop!Dorgon also expected this to happen. He didn't expect these [-] heavy cavalry to defeat the Lancers of the Ming army. He just hoped to use this force to hold back this terrible opponent and buy time for the main force of his cavalry army. .Now Zu Dabi has undoubtedly been dragged back, he waved his cavalry, and more than [-] cavalry bypassed the battlefield where the heavy cavalry collided, and went straight to the Heluo New Army phalanx!And behind the four thousand cavalry, there were eighteen thousand infantry.These infantrymen wore heavy armor and held long soldiers. They trotted all the way and pressed up behind the cavalry. When they moved, it seemed that the entire hill was moving!

Yan Yingyuan made a gesture, and Zu Dale led a thousand cavalrymen roaring out, crashing into the four thousand cavalrymen of the Qing army.This cavalry of the Qing army is a bit far from the one that was fighting with Zu Dabi bloody. As soon as they came into contact, they were knocked off their backs. The Heluo Xin army's cavalry, whose strength was only a quarter of that of their opponents, was like hell. , devoured the Qing army cavalry row by row, and wanted to rush up to take away the artillery positions?Go dreaming!
Yan Yingyuan made another gesture, the swan whistle blew, and the waist drum beat a brisk beat. Eleven thousand Heluo New Army infantrymen leaned their rifles on their shoulders, waved their left arms and strode forward in neat steps, facing the approaching people step by step. The main force of the Qing army's infantry.Now Dorgon didn't leave any reserve troops behind, and pressed forward with all his troops. Yan Yingyuan would not be polite to him, and the entire army pressed forward together!
The cavalry moved to the battlefield immediately, they didn't want to be caught between two huge infantry regiments and squeezed into meat sauce!
Nearly [-] infantry were divided into two camps and approached quickly.

When the distance between the two sides was only 60 meters, Yu Jian flew over.Yan Yingyuan shouted: "Stand still! The first row—shoot!"

Eleven thousand infantry stood still at the same time, the first row of infantry stepped forward, aimed their guns, and pulled the trigger.The front of the infantry formation of the Heluo New Army suddenly spewed out a cloud of white gunpowder smoke, and the sound of gunfire was deafening like thunder.Gunshots and screams rang out almost at the same time, and the striding forward Qing soldiers fell down row by row like cutting wheat. Blood foam and pieces of meat flew in the air, and the air was quickly covered with a layer of blood mist.Then came the second volley, and then the third... After three platoons of guns were fired, the Qing infantry's corpses were already strewn all over the ground.

They were still rolling forward, and the gap made by the bullet was filled in an instant!
The Heluo new army is also welcome, the third row finished, the first row stepped forward again, raised their guns and fired!At this time, the golden drums of the Qing army were beeping together, and countless soldiers of the Qing army shouted wildly: "Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" Hundreds of dare-to-die soldiers held a large shield in one hand and a bundle of grenades in the other, and let out almost crazy With a roar, they rushed towards the infantry phalanx of the Heluo New Army!
Yan Yingyuan yelled: "Kill them! Get the bayonet!"

The first platoon of infantry retreated immediately after firing, and instead of reloading, they drew out their bayonets and loaded them.The second row made up their positions and raised their guns to shoot a volley. The hundreds of self-explosive soldiers were immediately bathed in the rain of bullets. Their shields were shattered, their bodies exploded, and there were many casualties.Fighting again in the third row, none of the hundreds of guys who rushed up to die with them could stand up again.

At this time, the Qing army's forward troops were only 30 meters away from them.

The Heluo new army did not throw grenades.The distance is too close, and their grenades are too powerful, and the shrapnel can still be lethal if they fly hundreds of meters away. Dropping bombs at this distance will blow up the enemy and themselves.Without saying a word, the eleven thousand infantrymen leveled their bayonets, let out an earth-shattering roar in unison, and slammed towards the Qing army!The Qing army thought that this pure firearms army was powerful with muskets, and they would only be slaughtered after being rushed in front of them. They never expected that the Heluo new army would dare to confront them. They were stunned for a moment, and then issued Roaring even more frantically, they slammed into it, and an unprecedented scuffle erupted like sparks hitting the earth!
Now the battlefield is divided into several parts. Qin Yiming's Sichuan army is facing the siege of tens of thousands of Qing infantry. They block the enemy with several heavy rifles. Then rushed up and stabbed a large area, and retreated immediately before the Qing army could react, and the crossbowman continued to shoot arrows... This kind of defensive counterattack tactics combined with rifles and crossbows really caused the Qing army a headache. After rushing several times in a row, the Sichuan army remained motionless.The Zu brothers led the Lancers and Chasseurs to attack the crowd with a handful of cavalry, and fought bloody battles with the Qing cavalry several times more than them. Go, leaving behind piles of crumbling corpses.The Third Corps of the Heluo New Army collided head-on with the main force of the Qing infantry, and the bayonets met the swords and spears, killing blood and blood.The sound of killing within a few miles was loud, the fields were full of corpses, blood was flowing, the bloody battle was shocking!

The artillerymen of the Heluo New Army continued to fire.Three thousand Tianxiong infantry guarded the artillery position, and the artillery continued to bombard the other side of the Xiaohe River and the hills.After such a distance, the artillerymen don't know what they can hit. It's just that the whole battlefield is in chaos now. There are me and the enemy. They can't fire support at all. They can only fire at the rear of the Qing army. See Can it kill the Qing army?In fact, their tactics are still very effective. The rumbling artillery made the Qing army tremble with fear, while the Ming army's morale was like a rainbow. The most terrible thing was that every Qing army had to be bombarded before joining the battlefield, leaving piles of dead body, which is undoubtedly very demoralizing.

What made the Qing army even more frustrating... or rather, it was the fighting power of the Ming army.Needless to say, the Sichuan army, the Shizhu white-armed soldiers have always been the elite of the Ming army. The Qing army did not suffer from them, and their equipment was much better than the Qing army. .The melee ability of the Heluo new army also surprised the Qing army. They thought that the equipment of the Heluo new army was not suitable for melee combat. They just had a short sword on the barrel. What use could such equipment be?After fighting, I found that the lethality of this thing is no worse than that of a broadsword and spear. The moves of the soldiers of the new army are extremely simple and sharp, and their coordination is also tacit. Elite soldiers who practice martial arts at a young age have no advantage in front of them!

What the hell!

After half a day of bloody battle, both sides were exhausted and had to leave the corpses all over the ground and retreat first, taking a breather before talking.Dorgon looked at the heavy casualties of the troops, and his heart ached. He never dreamed that he would fight like this. According to this way of fighting, even if he can win this battle, how many of his subordinates will survive?He immediately proposed not to fight and withdrew to Taiyuan.Before the words fell, many Niulu Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen, who had already killed their red eyes, roared furiously: "Bird! Since we started our army, we have never tried to lose to Ming in such a head-to-head wild battle. Dog! Last time in Lushun, I underestimated the enemy and let Minggou make calculations. This time, I have to convince them and get the place back!” Even Doduo, who has always been obedient to Dorgon, insisted on fighting to the end , No matter what you say, you will beat the Ming army to the ground!The superiority of the Ming army in firearms has already made them panic. If they can't win the Ming army even in hand-to-hand combat, what's the use of withdrawing to Liaodong!

The generals were determined to do so, and Dorgon had no choice but to grit his teeth and order: "Have a rest for half an hour, and then the whole army will press up and fight to the death!"

Before the words fell, I heard the sound of the swan whistle resounding through the sky, and the cry of "Wan Sheng" came like a tsunami, and I looked around in amazement, only to see the Ming army with the three thousand heavenly army reserve as the vanguard, and the whole army pressed forward. It's pressing up like a tide!There was no sound of cannonballs, the shells had already been fired, but the steely roar was even more frightening than the sound of cannonballs!They don't seem to know what fatigue is at all. The Qing army rested for half an hour and then regrouped to fight again. They are already called animals. Press it up!
The Qing army froze for a moment, the war drums beat and the horns blared, and all the soldiers of the army came out with all their long soldiers and pressed them down.What greeted them was still the sound of gunfire like popping beans, and then the breastplates collided, the spears and bayonets stabbed each other, the long knives slashed, the spears were smashed and stones were thrown, and the knives were punched and kicked. They all tried their best to put each other to death, screams, roars, and curses one after another, with the Cao Family Temple as the center, blood flowed into rivers and piles of corpses on the Great Plains for several miles!

Finally, the tragic sound of killing gradually subsided. On the battlefield shrouded in blood mist, a black tiger flag fluttered. The blood stains on the flag made it even more murderous.On the flag, the tiger looked up to the sky and roared wildly, raising its claws, as if it might jump down from the flagpole at any time and tear everything into pieces!
PS: After reading this chapter, there are probably many people who want to say that they don’t know tactics, can’t use their brains, and so on. Let me just say a few points.First: Equipment determines tactics. At this time, the tactics of the new army can refer to the British lobster soldiers from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The tactics of the line infantry era are basically like this.Second: If you feel that the plot is unreasonable, you can look at a series of battles in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At that time, the proportion of firearms in the Qing army was as high as [-]%, and it was smashed by the Taiping army with spears countless times.

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